Camerowska traveling :)

It was amazing

Despite the fact it was more like a "Japanese sightseeing" (SORRY MAICO ) - as we had only 2h there => we were running around and taking pics

But it was worth it anyway!

We took a rickshaw. Actually, for the 1st time in India it was actually nice that we had someone nagging offering their (rickshaw) services. We hired a rickshaw for a day an d the guy took us all around the places, dropping us off in front of the door so we could c all

Bodh Gaya: this is where a prince was sitting under a tree and got ENLIGHTENED (the enlightened = buddha! - therefore the name). We saw all the temples - also ones made by other Buddhist countries (a Thai one, a Japanese one), and a huge Buddha statue

When we got back to Gaya… Well… this is actually when it got LESS nice…
I guess I forgot to mention that both towns are in the province of Bihar. Apparently THE most dangeroujs proince of India. Later on I even heard from my Indiian friend that they've never been there - BECAUSE it's so dangerous… Apparently there are herds of these bandits that attack cars with tourists (and not only). On the way it all looked as some military terrain - with guards with weapons (and we are talking machine guns!) were walking around every nicer-looking house… nice… we were aware of the fact it was not safe there. But we wanted to see the Buddha-stuff anyway…

So… by the time we got back to Gaya it already got dark. We still had like 3h to our train to Kolkata. We were very hungry and actually wanted to find some restaurant to spend these 3h in. However… Easier said that done.. There were actually NO restaurants there. And we are not talking some fancy places. No. Not even some crappy place where we could sit inside of some building… We started feeling really unsafe. On top of that, there was some guy (clearly mentally disabled) who started following us. He asked for money. We ignored him at first. We picked up pour backpacks from the storage. He kept on following. All the time he was holding a glass with some drink. All of a sudden, when we were walking (and he was behind us) we felt some cold liquid on our backs. Apparently he spilled it over us (I might hope it was his drink and nothing worse). We felt really bad / unsafe. We quickly decided to go to some street store and just get some food (as in: chippies, VERY healthy!) so we could take our malaria pills and just go to a waiting room of first class at the station. We went to a store. The weird guy was still following. And he didn’t understand English - when we were telling him to leave us alone. We asked a guy at the store to tell him in Hindi to go away. That didn’t help either. Luckily, he was not allowed to enter the waiting room, so that's where we spent the rest of the time we had in Bihar… :-S

Oh yes, I also went to call Hursh, as we had agreed upon, so they would pick us up at the station in Calcutta. I went to the phone booth. On the floor there were like 5 rats :-S. NIIICE. Luckily they got equally scared of me as I did of them and they ran away.

Finally we could board our night train on the way to Calcutta

- Bodh Gaya